The Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Reconciliation Act (PRWORA) of 1996 fundamentally changed the nation's social welfare system, replacing a federal entitlement program for low-income ...

Based on its work to date, the panel offers several recommendations directed to the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS) regarding its immediate research agenda. These recommendations ...

When the Trump administration targeted billions of dollars in federal welfare funds recently over fraud concerns, it singled out five Democratic-run states. An examination by The Wall Street Journal ...

Two of the weightiest questions in contemporary social ethics are: What is government’s legitimate role in welfare work? How ought the Christian Church to relate itself to the welfare role of ...

WASHINGTON -- Pat Moynihan was puzzled. He was speaking in March 1994, on an almost deserted Senate floor, about Social Security but some unlikely people were listening. They were clerks in the front ...

My name is Robert Rector. I am a Senior Research Fellow at The Heritage Foundation. The views I express in this testimony are my own and should not be construed as representing any official position ...

Recent welfare scams in Mississippi and federally subsidized day care and child nutrition frauds in Minnesota have cost U.S. taxpayers billions of dollars. Although their audacity and scope may shock ...

The welfare fraud in Minnesota seems to be a never-ending story. We’re learning that scammers bilked multiple programs intended to help low-income families, including Medicaid, food aid, housing ...